[RummyChick]

kate middleton’s grandmother helped crack the code at Bletchley

[LukeL]

Uncle Bosey did his part by giving a tummy ache to some savage natives.

[PGR88]

The decision to involve the King and his family in what turned out to be a major deception was made by former secret service officer Alan 'Tommy' Lascelles, the King's new Private Secretary.

Sorry to go on a tangent, but Tommy Lascelles (played by Philip D'Oyly "Pip" Torrens) on "The Crown" was by far the best character in that series, even if not a major one.

[Blurb2350]

What an interesting life she had! Here she is driving an ambulance.

[Leaning Right]

Here’s some soldiers moving one of the fake tanks from the fake Allied army in the north of England. It was meant to fool German reconnaissance aircraft.

[ansel12]

“She was also, on her 16th birthday, appointed Colonel of the Grenadier Guards. The regiment presented her with a Colonel’s Colour as a birthday present.

She inspected the regiment, an experience she found “a bit mark frightening but not as bad as she expected”. Thus began her lifelong association with the Grenadiers, which she is known to cherish.

The training battalion of the Grenadiers was stationed at Windsor Castle during the war as a close protection force and the young officers became the princesses’ first escorts, whom they called their “flirts”.”

[ridesthemiles]

Queen Elizabeth was the ONLY world leader who was a VETERAN of WWII.